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By Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch
After years of litigation over its nonprofit status and use of a hallucinogenic controlled substance, an Iowa-based church is one step closer to being able to import the drug.
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has agreed to award the Iowaska Church of Healing the state certification that is needed to clear the way for the issuance of federal certificates to not only import a controlled substance, but also to manufacture from it a tea that is to be used in religious ceremonies.
State records indicate the church was formed in Iowa in September 2018 and is run by Admir Dado Kantarevic and by Shaman BaBa DaDo, the latter of whom the church describes as “an internationally renowned healer and clairvoyant.” For a time, the church’s official headquarters was Kantarevic’s former home in Des Moines.
Iowaska’s teachings are built around the use of ayahuasca, a tea that is brewed from the leaves of shrubs and vines found in the Amazon. The church has acknowledged that under the federal Controlled Substances Act, an ingredient of ayahuasca called
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